"Expressively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her, and even more expressively. "Admire my boldness," it seemed to say, "and oblige me by imitating it as well as you can." Mrs. Pope began to ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... that heaved, the last torrent was streaming, And pale was his visage, deep mark'd with a scar, And dim was that eye, once expressively beaming, That melted in love, and that kindled ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... ended—with the success which it deserved—never did that most expressive of all human features, the eye, thank a boy more expressively. Over all things cultivate sympathy. If antipathy goes with it, so much the better. If the magnet must attract, it likewise must repel. Dickens was a magnet of the magnets; but in his case I must confess, that when a modern specimen tells me he can't laugh at him, he ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb
... does not,' said Mrs Varden; 'and I dare say you do not, Varden. It's a very unpleasant subject, I have no doubt, though I won't say it's personal'—Miggs coughed—'whatever I may be forced to think'—Miggs sneezed expressively. 'You never will know, Varden, and nobody at young Mr Willet's age—you'll excuse me, sir—can be expected to know, what a woman suffers when she is waiting at home under such circumstances. If you don't believe me, as I know ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... as she had often wondered, at the impossibility of guessing, even vaguely, what was really going on behind that large brow. And he looked back observantly, but not expressively, at her. She was a slim, fair, pretty woman, with more vividness and character than usually goes with her type. Like the boy, she had long-lashed grey eyes, and blond-cendre hair: her mouth and chin were of the Burne-Jones ...
— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson
... honestly by that," said Longueville, expressively, while his companion, returning his salutation with a certain scrupulous grace of her own, hurried ...
— Confidence • Henry James
... Cortes? Lucky you were not with us. My faith—" the speaker wriggled expressively, "we ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
... near to the horse, he began to walk up slowly towards him, putting out his hand as if to take hold of the bridle and saying, "Whoa—Dobbin,—whoa." The horse raised his head a little from the grass, shook it very expressively at Phonny, walked on a few steps, and then began to feed upon the grass as before. He seemed to know precisely how much resistance was necessary to avoid the recapture with ...
— Mary Erskine • Jacob Abbott
... How expressively he sang those words! Missy became troubled. Of course Romance was beautiful but those things belonged in ancient times. You wouldn't want things like that right in your own family, especially when Uncle Charlie already had a ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... resigned himself to the fate which awaited him, and made no resistance when he was stripped by one of the marines, and stretched over the gun. The men, who were on deck, said nothing; they looked at each other expressively as the preparations were made. Flogging a lad like Smallbones was too usual an occurrence to excite surprise, and to show their disgust would have been dangerous. Smallbones' back was now bared, and miserable was the spectacle; the shoulder-blades protruded, so that ...
— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat
... here," replied Jessie, as she stretched out her arm for the pitcher and tilted it expressively, exposing to view a few bare, dry slices of lemon in the bottom. "They'll be sure to come up here, and it's rather shabby not ...
— Half a Dozen Girls • Anna Chapin Ray
... he slugged into that asteroid going close to seven AU's," Santos was saying. The corporal shrugged expressively. ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... crates like that. If they can get new Spads, like those we saw 'em flying this morning, or Nieuport 28's, or the Salmsons which their commander has been trying to get, then all will be jake. Otherwise—" he shrugged his shoulders expressively. ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke
... added Anna-Felicitas, nodding her head emphatically, which was very skilful of her, thought Anna-Rose, considering that it was upside down. "German stowaways," whispered Anna-Felicitas, sniffing expressively though cautiously. ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... Mrs. Destructive? This is recently noticed as follows in the "Household Journal":—"Of this most admirable school, for faithful and well-bred system of education, we have long intended to speak approvingly; but in the following extract from the circular the truth is more expressively given:—'From September to April the time of rising is a quarter before seven o'clock, and from April to July half an hour earlier; then breakfast; after which, from eight to nine o'clock, study,—the school opening at nine o'clock, with ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... waned on Stephen's face. Any allusion made to his father by a fellow or by a master put his calm to rout in a moment. He waited in timorous silence to hear what Heron might say next. Heron, however, nudged him expressively with ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... man and dog sat eyeing each other in silence, then the former, moistening his dry lips with his tongue, gave a conciliatory chirrup. Roger responded with a deep growl, and, rising to his feet, yawned expressively. ...
— The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant • W. W. Jacobs
... left alone, looked at each, other in silence for a moment. Then the solicitor shook his head expressively. ...
— The Talleyrand Maxim • J. S. Fletcher
... you might wish to take it, sir. Mr. Brown"—winking expressively at the name, "always checks his carpet-bag for home when he sees me coming. But that is your affair; I am ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
... hotel, Susanna let her friend go up first; and as soon as we were alone, she looked at me expressively, placing one hand on her breast, and said to me, in ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja
... "artful" her fine eyes smiled straight into Braybrooke's, and she pinched her red lips together very expressively. ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... glance around them. "To-morrow, he'll have to come into that same slaughter pen and seize the murderer and subdue him by the steely glint of his eye and by his unflinching demeanor." He pulled the corners of his mouth down expressively. "That's the way the scenario reads," ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower
... lady's going to sea after her true-love suggest more than the most laboured declamation on the force of love? When the captain is melted by the pathetic address, and lily-white breast of the lady, is it not clearly and expressively intimated how great is the power of weeping beauty pleading in a good cause, over even the boisterous nature of a sailor? Again, when the lady shoots Billy Taylor, what a fine sentiment is to be discovered here of the power of jealousy? and in the death of Billy contrasted ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 • Various
... wavering expressively on the threshold as if in rebuke of such offhand acquiescence; then her retreating steps sounded down the passage, and Mary, pushing away her papers, crossed the hall, and went to the library door. It was ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) • Edith Wharton |
